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Pearl Jam confirmed Monday on its Web site that it will headline the final night of Lollapalooza when the festival returns to Grant Park on Aug. 3-5. The Seattle quintet made its first big splash at the second Lollapalooza in 1992 with a live show that coincided with the release of the best-selling single "Jeremy." The rest of the Lollapalooza lineup will be announced next week. Tickets for the event go on sale Tuesday through lollapalooza.com. ---------- Personals was compiled by Kim Profant from Tribune news services and staff reports

Pearl Jam is not only the last and biggest survivor of the alternative-rock '90s, it's also one of the unlikeliest. Fame, the media and Ticketmaster never sat well with the Seattle quintet, and by the middle of the last decade, this multimillion-album-selling band appeared in danger of imploding. It disappeared for a while, then resumed making albums for a shrinking audience. Yet Pearl Jam's following on the road remains undiminished, as a sold-out concert Tuesday at the United Center reaffirmed.

By Joshua Klein, for RedEye. JOSHUA KLEIN IS A REDEYE SPECIAL CONTRIBUTOR | June 19, 2003

At the height of the '90s grunge explosion, it sometimes seemed that Pearl Jam couldn't do anything right. Some people complained about the band's lack of punk credentials, and its Seattle peers derided the group as poseurs. But while other bands burned out, caught up in the throws of faux revolution, Pearl Jam was laying the groundwork for a long career. Sure, Pearl Jam seemed pretty meat and potatoes, musically. But it goes to show that if you wait long enough, the world will change around you. Pearl Jam changed too. The band kept a low profile after the suicide of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, escaping the grunge backlash, and their Quixotic battle with Ticketmaster only did more to lower their profile.

Rumors about where and when Pearl Jam will play in town besides Chicago Stadium on March 10 are getting out of hand, as far as at least one local club is concerned. Metro says it smelled a rat when 500 tickets were sold in advance for next Wednesday's performance by Curious Yellow and two other local bands. Callers seeking tickets to the show say they were tipped off that Curious Yellow is a pseudonym for Pearl Jam. The Seattle band will actually be playing in Florida that night. Metro says refunds will be offered at point of purchase to anyone who bought a ticket for the March 9 show under the assumption Pearl Jam would be playing.

Pearl Jam announced Tuesday that it will play a benefit concert Oct. 5 at House of Blues to benefit the survivors of Hurricane Katrina. Tickets, priced at $1,000, will go on sale Saturday through Ticketmaster. All proceeds will benefit survivors by aiding the American Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity, as well as the Jazz Foundation of America and the New Orleans Musicians Clinic, which are helping displaced musicians with housing and health care.

The rock band Pearl Jam capitulated in its long battle against Ticketmaster Corp. Wednesday and said it would use the agency's services to sell tickets during its current national tour. "For the large venues where Ticketmaster has an exclusive monopoly, they will have to go back to Ticketmaster," said Barbara Lynch, a publicist for ETM Entertainment Network, the alternative ticket agency backed by the Seattle-based band. Pearl Jam will launch its U.S. tour Friday at the 9,205-seat Casper Events Center in Casper, Wyo., the first of about a dozen venues the band arranged without the help of Ticketmaster, which has an exclusive arrangement with many of the nation's biggest arenas and stadiums.

Hey, Eddie, maybe this job is not for you. Eddie Vedder and his band, Pearl Jam, have had a tough summer. First they had to cave against Ticketmaster: After refusing to do concerts connected with the ticket agency because they thought it charged fans too much, they found it was too hard to put on concerts any other way. Then, Eddie walked off the stage at a June 24 concert in San Francisco, saying he had the flu. Two days later, the band canceled the...

Pearl Jam wavered last week in its ongoing feud with Ticketmaster. The band has lashed out at the ticket agency, saying the fees it charges fans are too high. The rockers said Wednesday that they would allow Ticketmaster to sell tickets for part of their '95 tour. But Saturday they were singing the same old tune about their ongoing dispute with the ticket agency. Even though Pearl Jam had booked two shows into a Ticketmaster venue, the band said it had not changed its position opposing the ticket agency.

Pearl Jam drew one of the largest crowds ever Saturday night on Bonnaroo's main stage, while Kanye West left the crowd a bit ticked off. Pearl Jam's set at the music and arts festival in Tennessee included rarities and Bob Dylan and Who covers, billboard.com reported. The rockers' appearance at Bonnaroo marked just its second U.S. festival date since nine fans were crushed to death during its 2000 set at a festival in Denmark. "There was a time when we thought we'd never play a show like this again," he told fans during the set. "[Bonnaroo]

A day after canceling its summer tour, Pearl Jam announced Tuesday that the shows would go on, after all-at least at Soldier Field, on July 11, and in Milwaukee, on July 8 and 9. No other dates on the tour had been restored, but the 24-hour turnabout on the Chicago and Milwaukee shows left local promoters and even some members of Pearl Jam's own camp befuddled, while local rock stations had a field day making jokes about the off-again, on-again...